Κατ' ίχνος βαδίζειν ἐθέλων τοῦ ἀποστόλου Παύλου. LONDON: New Street-Square. х THIE HORE PAULINÆ OF WILLIAM PALEY, D.D. CARRIED OUT AND ILLUSTRATED IN A CONTINUOUS HISTORY OF THE APOSTOLIC LABOURS AND WRITINGS OF ST. PAUL, ON THE BASIS OF THE ACTS, WITH INTERCALARY MATTER OF SACRED NARRATIVE SUPPLIED AND ELUCIDATED IN OCCASIONAL DISSERTATIONS. BY JAMES TATE, M.A. CANON RESIDENTIARY OF ST. PAUL'S. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS, PATERNOSTER-ROW. INTRODUCTION TO THE CONTINUOUS HISTORY OF ST. PAUL. WHEN Dr. Paley remarked, in his Exposition of the Argument of the Hora Paulina (p. 9. as here reprinted), that his own subject, in that work of unrivalled merit and originality, had never been proposed or considered in the same view before; it is much to be lamented, that he did not advance one step farther in his reflections. It might have occurred to his mind, that neither Ludovicus Cappellus nor Bishop Pearson nor Dr. George Benson nor Dr. Lardner, in the continued history of St. Paul's life which each of them had written, made up from the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles joined together, could have given the whole of that history under its only true and natural aspect. They were not qualified to give it so; inasmuch as not one of those authors, however successful as to some of the Epistles, had been fortunate enough to take the whole of them in that just succession, which Dr. P.'s own labours in the Hora Paulinæ have so admirably contributed to point out and establish. If happily for the cause of sacred learning Dr. Paley had thus reflected, he must have felt that a great desideratum, therefore, remained and if he had then bent the powers of his mind to the task, such a complete narrative, on a correct and clear arrangement of all the |